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Gay Marriage Legal In France Despite Protest
France has became the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage. President Francois Hollande signed the measure into law after months of bitter political and public debate Mr Hollande acted a day after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition, which had been the last obstacle to passing the bill into law. The legislation also legalises gay ...
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Probe begins after Conn. commuter trains collide
FAIRFIELD, Conn. Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor. Three patients remained in critical condition Saturday morning, with two of those stable, according to officials at two Bridgeport hospitals. The crash happened ...
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S. Korea N. Korea launches short-range missiles
A South Korean man at a Seoul, South Korea, train station watches a TV news broadcast reporting a missile launch conducted by North Korea May 18, ...
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First Saudi woman climbs to top of Everest
A 25-year-old graphic design graduate has become the first ever Saudi woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest. Raha Moharrak is the only female in a group of four Arabs who announced two months ago that they would be reaching the summit in ...
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Surrey Polices Tandridge Beat team call crooks numpties and Billy Burglar on Facebook
A police force which calls crooks 'numpties' on its Facebook page and writes in a jokey manner about crime and criminals on its patch has won a huge following from local ...
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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN Peter Mandelson admits Labour brought migrants here after losing working class votes
The truth at last! Peter Mandelson admits Labour 'sent out search parties' to bring migrants here after losing the votes of the working class, writes RICHARD ...
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Nigel Farage hounded by mob says Scottish nationalists are fascist scum who hate the English
The UK Independence Party leader said the left-wing extremists who trapped him in an Edinburgh pub were the ‘ugly face of Scottish nationalism’ pursuing an anti-English ...
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SIMON HEFFER Philip Hammond a serious contender The grey man who could be David Camerons nemesis
You may not have heard of Philip Hammond — there’s little reason why you should. After all, the Defence Secretary is not the most charismatic ...
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Investigation launched over German Green partys support for paedophiles in the 1980s
Germany's Greens, Europe's most influential environmentalist party, have been obliged to open a detailed investigation into past policy and practice amid revelations that in the 1980s, its members actively supported paedophile groups which campaigned to legalise sex with ...
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Germanys Merkel visits Pope urges tougher market controls
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Pope Francis on Saturday and, apparently responding to his criticism of a heartless "dictatorship of the economy", called for stronger regulation of financial ...
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New Yorkers Strongbox Can it shield anonymous sources
prison terms , media organizations are scrambling to find ways to protect themselves and their sources. The New Yorker on Wednesday took a step in that direction, creating an online dropbox where people can send documents, tips and letters to reporters - in exchange for what magazine calls "a reasonable amount of ...
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Tunisia bans Salafist groups meeting
The Tunisian government has banned a Salafist group from holding its annual congress, according to the interior ministry. The ministry said on Friday that Ansar al-Sharia's congress planned for Saturday posed a threat to public order. "We have decided to prohibit this gathering, which would be in violation of the law and because of the threat it represents to public order," the ...
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Blasts targeting Sunnis kill 76 in IraqBombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months.
Iraq in more than eight months. The major spike in sectarian bloodshed heightened fears the country could again be veering toward civil war. The attacks followed two days of bombings targeting Shiites, including bus stops and outdoor markets, with a total of 130 people killed since Wednesday. Scenes of bodies sprawled across a street outside a mosque and mourners killed during a funeral ...
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Eight killed 10 policemen kidnapped in Iraqs Sunni heartland
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Suspected Sunni Muslim militants killed four state-backed Sunni fighters in Iraq on Saturday, security sources said, apparently viewing them as collaborators with the Shi'ite-led government of a nation plagued by sectarian hatred.Sunni-Shi'ite tensions in Iraq have been amplified by the conflict between mostly Sunni rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's ...
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South Korea Says North Fired Missiles
South Korea's Defense Ministry says North Korea on May 18 launched three short-range missiles off its east coast. South Korea's Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok, speaking in Seoul, said Pyongyang fired two missiles this morning and another in the afternoon in the Sea of Japan. North Korea last carried out missile launches in March when it test-fired two short-range ...
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Has U.S. Green Card Lottery Run Out Of Luck
WASHINGTON -- Each year around this time, millions of would-be immigrants to the United States from around the world hold their breath. Early May is when the U.S. State Department releases its shortlist of applicants to the annual green-card lottery. About half of them -- 55,000 people -- will receive permanent-residence visas, the tickets to eventual citizenship. This year, like any other, ...
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Enraged by kidnapping Egypt police keep Gaza border closed
Policeman says crossing will remain closed until the seven remaining kidnapped hostages who were taken by Islamic militants are freed and the Interior Minister comes to listen to security ...
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OJ knew about guns says lawyer
LAS VEGAS - A former attorney for OJ Simpson testified on Friday that the ex-football star knew two associates would be armed with guns when they accompanied him to a Las Vegas hotel room to recover property from two memorabilia ...
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Gitmo prisoner struck in clash named
Miami - A lawyer is identifying one of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners who was shot with non-lethal rounds in a recent clash at the prison and says the wounds were more significant than portrayed by U.S. ...
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Football coach Dale Strawbridge spared jail after he treated girls team like personal harem
A young football coach who sexually assaulted three members of a girls’ under 16 team who he treated as ‘his personal harem’, was today spared ...
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Tia Sharp relatives cash in on murder A home life based on benefits drugs and sex - what hope did she have
Outside the terrace house in Croydon, South London, where Tia Sharp used to stay with her grandmother, someone has left a bouquet with a message in the form of a poem. It begins: ‘Three little words / Forget me not / They don’t say much but mean a lot / Forget you not, we never ...
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Chinese man abducted as 5-year-old reunited with parents using GOOGLE MAPS
A Chinese man has been reunited with his biological family more than 20 years after he was abducted as a little boy - and claims he has Google Maps to thank for finding his way ...
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Asteroid 9 times larger than the QE2 set to whizz past Earth
Scientists have named the asteroid 1998 QE2 but the name has nothing to do with the transatlantic Cunard liner - it follows a code used for newly-discovered asteroids by the US Minor Planet Centre in Cambridge, ...
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Turkey softens opposition to Syria conference
Turkey has softened its opposition toward a Russia-US brokered international conference on Syria following Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's trip to the United States, local media said ...
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Afghan parliament fails to pass divisive womens law
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday banning violence against women, a severe blow to progress made in women's rights in the conservative Muslim country since the Islamist Taliban was toppled over a decade ...
Oklahoma City Focus
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Oklahoma City's ambitious overhaul of downtown
Oklahoma City with her 550,000 residents in the city core and a further 700,000 in the wider metropolitan area is the largest urban area in the state and Oklahoma’s largest city. We are therefore the economic hub of the state, so Project 180 was always going to cause a significant amount of disruption.
When construction on the Devon Tower was first reported by Oklahoma City news media in October, 2009 many residents of the city waited in anticipation to see what the finished product would look like. The 50-story building, will be the new headquarters of Devon Energy, will be the tallest building in the city and will contain 1.8 million square feet of office space. It is a true substantiation of the city’s status as a commercial power hub. Read more
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